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A Violent PeaceRace, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific\nAuthor(s): Christine Hong\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503612914, 978-1503612914\nSynopsis\nA Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between [url] police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and [url] Du Bois discerned in domestic strategies to quell racial protests the same counterintelligence logic structuring America's devastating wars in Asia.\n\n Examining [url] militarism's centrality to the Cold War cultural imagination, Christine Hong assembles a transpacific archiveplacing war writings, visual renderings of the American concentration camp, Japanese accounts of the atomic bomb.